Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house rented from Gary Grant, to which very few male visitors are admitted, and on which he seems to have made no marks of his own occupancy. He has no chauffeur, no cook, no valet-in fact, no servants in the ordinary sense but a quartet of aides-de-camp. They include Charlie Guest, his old golf pro, and another man named Barry, who might be described as lieutenants in charge of odds & ends, including admissions and evictions; Johnny Meyer, the man with the telephone numbers ; and Dick Davis, a Carl Byoir associate (high-voltage publicity...
...Wednesday four more blows fell on the bewildered opposition. Halleck announced that he would indeed deliver Indiana. Driscoll announced for Dewey, although his delegation was split. Senator James P. Kem came out of the Missouri woods, rushing for the Dewey camp. And right at his heels was Governor Robert Bradford of Massachusetts...
...meet again the following night at Hamilton's other apartment at 2031 Locust Street. That night Stassen and Taft-old political enemies-confronted each other and sat down as allies. With Duff they reviewed the whole situation. In anguish they reported to each other that the Dewey camp was spreading stories so fast that by the time one was checked another had cropped up. Delegates were being stampeded. They compared notes. Taft's and Stassen's figures on the estimated strength of each were amazingly similar. Taft and Stassen, companions in distress, began to warm toward each...
...Illinois votes which had gone to Favorite Son Green. Dewey got 24 of the 35 New Jersey votes which had gone to Driscoll. Most of Dewey's gain was in dribs & drabs-a vote here, a vote there, demonstrating the value of the Dewey camp's attention to details...
...order was passed; but below, the mob was waiting for the "traitors." While Red army men and Russian policemen watched, Communist thugs closed in. They pounded the stomach and back of Socialist Otto Bach until he had a hemorrhage. Said Jeanette, who had been put in a concentration camp by the Nazis for being Jewish: "They are mad. This is 1933 all over again." She, too, was beaten, but got away...